US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 31 for "In situ equipment capability assessment and use in operation" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,521, issued on March 31, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"In situ equipment capability assessment and use in operation" was invented by Timothy Holiman Hunter (Duncan, Okla.) and Stanley V. Stephenson (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fracturing may comprise: varying a plurality of operational parameters of wellbore servicing equipment; observing a response of the wellbore servicing equipment; generating a model of the wellbore servicing equipment based on the response; and changing at least one of the plurality of operational parameters based at least in part on the model."

The p...